University Press of Colorado, 2013 eISBN: 978-1-885635-32-7 | Paper: 978-1-885635-31-0 Library of Congress Classification PS3607.O568A6 2013 Dewey Decimal Classification 811.6
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
With intimacy and depth of insight, Henrietta Goodman’s Hungry Moon suggests paradox as the most basic mode of knowing ourselves and the world. We need hunger, the poems argue, but also satisfaction. We need pain to know joy, joy to know pain. We need to protect ourselves, but also to take risks. Though the poems are drawn from personal experience, Goodman shares the conviction of such poets as Anne Sexton and Louise Glück that when the poet writes of the self, the self cannot be exempt from culpability. Goodman’s speaker ranges through time and locale—from exploring the experience of flying in a small plane with her lover/pilot over the landscape of the American West to addressing the grief and retrospective self-scrutiny that arise from a friend’s death. Like the work of Mark Doty and Tony Hoagland, Goodman’s poems embrace concrete particularity, entangled as it is with imperfection and loss: “the Quik Stop’s fridge full of sandwiches and small bottles of livestock vaccines,” “the black, hammer-struck moon of your thumb,” “the empty water tower, one rusted panel kicked in like a door.”
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Henrietta Goodman is the author of Take What You Want, winner of the 2006 Beatrice Hawley Award from Alice James Books. She received an MFA in poetry from the University of Montana and a PhD in English from Texas Tech University. Her poems have been published in New England Review, Massachusetts Review, Field, and Guernica, and she has received an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Montana Arts Council and the Marjorie Davis Boyden Wilderness Writing Residency. Her work is included in the anthologies Lit from Inside: 40 Years of Poetry from Alice James Books and A Face to Meet the Faces: An Anthology of Contemporary Persona Poetry. She lives in Missoula, Montana.
REVIEWS
“Stunningly musical and stylistically varied, the poems in Hungry Moon have the effect of a flyover view of terrain pocked with domestic and social unease. The reconnaissance we receive—red stuffing spilling out of a child’s cheek torn by a dog; a cello case’s lining ‘exposed like a body split down the middle’—makes us think there is no safe place to land. But Goodman is expert at steering our gaze to identify landmarks in the natural world to bring us safely down; these sonically rich and surprising poems are lessons in perception, obliging us to look at the world from a distance and then up close, touch what is in front of us, like a stone from a rockslide—‘I pick one up, / hold my hand over the black draft, then put it back’—to learn from, and move on.”
—Curtis Bauer
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Cover
Contents
Part I
Hungry Moon
Dog with Stick of Dynamite
After Birth
Aurora
Fly or Crawl
Witchwater
Outside the Video Store
The Path to Immortality
Where Sadness Comes From
Canada
Clay Pigeons
Part II
First Flight
Navigation
The Wind I Mean
Airborne
Willful Blindness
Fairy Slipper
Ground Effect
Two on the Ground
Quiscalus Mexicanus
Embarking
After Fighting We Fly
Part III
In a Clearing
Magnetite
Destrudo
What Lets You Win
Object Lesson
Parting Gifts
Fire Season
Hell: Detail of a Couple in Bed
Matryoshka
Penelope at the Wheel
Spring Wedding
A Dozen Roses
Part IV
Telling It
What You Don’t Know
Seventeen
Not Falling, Not Fallen
Hunger
Elegy For the Last Time
This is How You Can Tell
Solution
Thermodynamic Elegy
Acknowledgements
AWARDS Sixth in the Mountain West Poetry Series.
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University Press of Colorado, 2013 eISBN: 978-1-885635-32-7 Paper: 978-1-885635-31-0
With intimacy and depth of insight, Henrietta Goodman’s Hungry Moon suggests paradox as the most basic mode of knowing ourselves and the world. We need hunger, the poems argue, but also satisfaction. We need pain to know joy, joy to know pain. We need to protect ourselves, but also to take risks. Though the poems are drawn from personal experience, Goodman shares the conviction of such poets as Anne Sexton and Louise Glück that when the poet writes of the self, the self cannot be exempt from culpability. Goodman’s speaker ranges through time and locale—from exploring the experience of flying in a small plane with her lover/pilot over the landscape of the American West to addressing the grief and retrospective self-scrutiny that arise from a friend’s death. Like the work of Mark Doty and Tony Hoagland, Goodman’s poems embrace concrete particularity, entangled as it is with imperfection and loss: “the Quik Stop’s fridge full of sandwiches and small bottles of livestock vaccines,” “the black, hammer-struck moon of your thumb,” “the empty water tower, one rusted panel kicked in like a door.”
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Henrietta Goodman is the author of Take What You Want, winner of the 2006 Beatrice Hawley Award from Alice James Books. She received an MFA in poetry from the University of Montana and a PhD in English from Texas Tech University. Her poems have been published in New England Review, Massachusetts Review, Field, and Guernica, and she has received an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Montana Arts Council and the Marjorie Davis Boyden Wilderness Writing Residency. Her work is included in the anthologies Lit from Inside: 40 Years of Poetry from Alice James Books and A Face to Meet the Faces: An Anthology of Contemporary Persona Poetry. She lives in Missoula, Montana.
REVIEWS
“Stunningly musical and stylistically varied, the poems in Hungry Moon have the effect of a flyover view of terrain pocked with domestic and social unease. The reconnaissance we receive—red stuffing spilling out of a child’s cheek torn by a dog; a cello case’s lining ‘exposed like a body split down the middle’—makes us think there is no safe place to land. But Goodman is expert at steering our gaze to identify landmarks in the natural world to bring us safely down; these sonically rich and surprising poems are lessons in perception, obliging us to look at the world from a distance and then up close, touch what is in front of us, like a stone from a rockslide—‘I pick one up, / hold my hand over the black draft, then put it back’—to learn from, and move on.”
—Curtis Bauer
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Cover
Contents
Part I
Hungry Moon
Dog with Stick of Dynamite
After Birth
Aurora
Fly or Crawl
Witchwater
Outside the Video Store
The Path to Immortality
Where Sadness Comes From
Canada
Clay Pigeons
Part II
First Flight
Navigation
The Wind I Mean
Airborne
Willful Blindness
Fairy Slipper
Ground Effect
Two on the Ground
Quiscalus Mexicanus
Embarking
After Fighting We Fly
Part III
In a Clearing
Magnetite
Destrudo
What Lets You Win
Object Lesson
Parting Gifts
Fire Season
Hell: Detail of a Couple in Bed
Matryoshka
Penelope at the Wheel
Spring Wedding
A Dozen Roses
Part IV
Telling It
What You Don’t Know
Seventeen
Not Falling, Not Fallen
Hunger
Elegy For the Last Time
This is How You Can Tell
Solution
Thermodynamic Elegy
Acknowledgements
AWARDS Sixth in the Mountain West Poetry Series.
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with an electronic file for alternative access.
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It can take 2-3 weeks for requests to be filled.
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